Once upon a time, Santa Claus had to work for a living, deciphering scribbles on pieces of paper to discern the gift desires of countless children, earning, perhaps, a few dry cookies and some warm milk for his toil. Now, thanks to Amazon.com Inc. and Twitter Inc., the red-suited home invader can lounge back at his North Pole headquarters monitoring tweets to figure out what exactly how much tonnage his reindeers will have to haul this December.

The hardest part of design is presenting work. You can?t even argue about this. I?ve seen people who did amazing work get up in front of a client and lay eggs. I?ve also seen people do alright work and work clients around their little finger. Optimally, you want to do good work and present it well. But I?d rather have a good designer who can present well than a great designer who can?t. In fact, I?d argue whether it?s possible to be a good designer if you can?t present your work to a client. Work that can?t be sold is as useless as the designer who can?t sell it.

A couple of weeks ago I had a great discussion with Renat from elastic.io about the characteristics of the self serve model for SaaS startups and more specifically about the role that marketing / branding have in it when you are at early stage.

The ?unbundling? of mobile applications is emerging as the trend du jour for large tech companies. Google, Facebook and Foursquare have all recently made headlines for dismantling some of their mobile software to create and launch multiple apps.

In August, a widely reported report from comScore, a measurement firm, concluded that the majority of smartphone users in the United States download precisely zero apps in any given month.

Attorney Mary Russell, Stock Option Counsel, counsels individual employees and founders to negotiate, maximize and monetize their stock options and other startup stock. You are invited to contact Stock Option Counsel for help in negotiating and evaluating your job offers and post-acquisition employment agreements, making stock option exercise and tax decisions and identifying your rights and opportunities to sell startup stock.

What?s the number one thing that holds most people back from success?

It?s not intelligence or hard work.

It?s your attitude.

Open Payments (commonly known as the Sunshine Act) requires applicable manufacturers and applicable group purchasing organizations (GPOs) to report certain payments and other transfers of value given to physicians and teaching hospitals, and any ownership or investment interest physicians, or their immediate family members, have in their company.

In a filing with regulators this morning, HubSpot set expectations for its long-anticipated IPO. The Cambridge, Mass., marketing SaaS company expects its IPO to price between $19 and $21 a share and trade on the NYSE under the ticker, “HUBS.”

Doctors and nurses are finally volunteering to fight the Ebola virus in West Africa after a long period of paralyzing fear in which almost none stepped forward.